45th Anniversary

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COMP is celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2019. The Department will specially organise a range of celebratory activities and events to foster strong bonding and connection between our students, alumni, staff members, industry partners and stakeholders.

Some key events are highlighted as follows. Please mark your diaries and we look forward to your participation.

IEEE MSN provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks. Selected papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of several SCI-indexed journals.

28 Nov 2019

COMP 45th Anniversary Gala Dinner

This is one of the most important events to celebrate the Department’s 45th anniversary this year. It provides an excellent opportunity for us to foster a stronger association with our staff, students, alumni, academic peers, research collaborators, industrial partners, as well as donors and sponsors, and share the joy of celebration with us.

WISE Society has established itself as a solid community aiming at high quality research and offering the ground for advancing and progressing efforts in Web information systems addressed topics. The aim of the conference series on Web Information Systems Engineering is to provide an International forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their knowledge and insights in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies, methodologies, and applications.

COMP and the Hong Kong Association for Computer Education (HKACE) jointly organised the sixth edition of Computer App Programming (CAP) Competition at PolyU. To foster creativity and further promote STEM education, the competition was divided into “CAP Test” and “CAP Day” this year.

COMP organised an open forum on “AI and Fintech Applications for Banking, Finance and Servicing Industries” at PolyU which brought together over 250 industry practitioners, executives, academia and students for potential collaborations and research opportunities.

To enhance student learning and career development, COMP introduces a mentorship programme in collaboration with the Computing Alumni Association (CAA). The aim is to provide students with advice on career development as well as general education. Each student will be assigned a mentor and there will also be group activities with other mentors.

In this lecture, Prof. Liu examined some critical issues related to big social media data such as how to make `big’ data bigger, how to protect a user’s privacy without the loss of service utility, and how to evaluate machine learned results without ground truth and at scale.

CAP Competition is an annual competition that targets at secondary school students, creating a great platform for them to develop computational and programming knowledge, enhance logical thinking skills, nurture creativity as well as increase team spirit.

Prof. Tao reviewed the recent progress on Artificial Intelligence (AI) by introducing some representative advancements from algorithms to applications, and illustrated the stairs for its realization from perceiving to learning, reasoning and behaving. He also brought some examples of AI challenges and share his insights and perspectives with the attendees.

The forum was co-hosted by COMP and the Department of Applied Mathematics (AMA) at PolyU with the theme of “How AI and Big Data are Driving Innovation”.

Under the theme of “How AI and Big Data are Driving Innovation”, five laureates of ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing and Fields Medal were invited to share their experience and achievements in academic research and their views of scientific development. Followed the laureates’ speeches, two panel discussions led by laureates, local and overseas scholars gave the audience inspirational and fruitful insights on the impact of growing adoption of artificial intelligence and big data.